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LITERARY TESTIMONY OF ILLNESS AND DEATH IN THE EPISTOLOGRAPHY OF PLINY THE YOUNGER
ИстраживањаIn his literary letters, one of the first of its kind in Roman literature, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus writes about various topics concerning the everyday life of Romans. His collection consists of stylistically revised (epistulae curatius scriptae/
MARINA ANDRIJAŠEVIĆ
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1302-1314, November 2025.This paper presents a new protocol for the laboratory preparation of archaeological samples. Ceramics that have been hand‐crafted using different sediments as raw materials were collected in a Roman Villa sited in Fiumana (FC), Italy. This method aims at concentrating and analysing heavy minerals in the 15–250 μm grain size fraction, studying the ...
S. Andò +6 more
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Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 9, September 2025.Abstract The Hellenic forearc is one of the least understood forearc systems globally due to limited availability of high‐resolution imagery of its deep structure, especially landward of the Mediterranean Ridge. Here, we combine widely spaced high‐resolution multichannel seismic‐reflection profiles with seafloor morpho‐bathymetric analysis and ...
Vasiliki Mouslopoulou +7 more
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Une pompe hydraulique romaine en bois en contexte d’incendie à Reims/Durocortorum
Gallia, 2023 A wooden water two-cylinder force pump was discovered in 2016 during a rescue archaeological excavation at 45 rue de Thillois in Reims. The discovery of this type of ancient hydraulic device is quite rare. Indeed, it is only the nineteenth specimen to be
Cyril Driard
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The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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Does Orthographic Variation Preclude Standardisation?
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 488-495, November 2024.Abstract In this response to Adams' article I begin by talking a bit, in a fairly atheoretical way, about definitions of standardisation. This is because Adams' argument that Latin was not, in the first century BC, a standard language, rests to a large degree on his own view of standardisation: one which approaches it very much from the perspective of ...
Nicholas Zair
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